ACT No. X of 2014 AN ACT to amend the Constitution of Malta.

I assent.

M ARIE L OUISE C OLEIRO P RECA

(L.S.)

President

17th April, 2014

ACT No. X of 2014

AN ACT to amend the Constitution of Malta.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:-

The short title of this Act is the Constitution of Malta Short title.

(Amendment) Act, 2014, and this Act shall be read and construed as

one with the Constitution of Malta, hereinafter referred to as "the

Constitution".

In article 32 of the Constitution, for the words "creed or Amends article

sex" there shall be substituted the words "creed, sex, sexual 32

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orientation or gender identity".

Article 45 of the Constitution shall be amended as follows: Amends article

45 of the

Constitution

(a)

in sub-article (3) thereof, for the words "creed or

sex" there shall be substituted the words "creed, sex, sexual

orientation or gender identity"; and

(b) in paragraph (b) of sub-article (5) thereof, for the

words "(not being qualifications specifically relating to sex)"

there shall be substituted the words "(not being qualifications

specifically relating to sex, sexual orientation or gender

identity)".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 141 of the

14th April, 2014.

A NĠLU F ARRUGIA

Speaker

R AYMOND S CICLUNA

Clerk to the House of Representatives